Okay, listen, I respect the work that went into this. I can also respect this is a kind of beta hardware for something that might be practical one day in the future. Apple can totally afford to play around with ideas. So, I'm not knocking them for working on this.
However, let's be honest. How many people want to wear this thing on their head instead of watching their 65" OLED TV (or bigger for the price of this thing)? Who wants to take this on a trip instead of a trusty MacBook Pro that has 16 hours of battery life? Who wants to use this thing to write forum posts? Who wants to use this thing to do much of anything? Not me.
In fact there is only one thing I can see this being useful for given the battery life, but they aren't going to market it for that.
yknow, your opinion is your opinion—I still open up the comments on the original iPod announcement just for fun sometimes—imo, I would rather wear this than spend however much on a gigantic OLED. 1) I don’t have the space for it 2) I don’t have the capital for it and this can do
so much more. battery life? yeah, it’s very
first-gen, to put it lightly—let’s just be thankful they didn’t make the battery some ungodly eyesore that has to be worn by the hip. (I did find the copy on the design section of their page for this—“Designed by Apple.”—hilarious, because it’s all that needs to be said)
why not use this for browsing when it has native keyboard/trackpad support? when it can mirror your ever-so-trusty MacBook in AR? that battery’s got some serious juice, surely it can be tapped into to power this.
and for the love of god, this thing will make flights so much less stressful. that was such an intentional point in their first ad that they unveiled. being able to project a 3D movie with an immersive background behind it? please. only Apple.
I already said in another thread that the first-gen isn’t for me, but this is one of the greatest products Apple has ever created and it deserves the most benefit of the doubt
possible. of course it will become cheaper down the line—ffs, a VCR cost the same amount as the original iPhone when they came out decades ago—and more consumers will buy into it. right now, I see this as a product mainly for developers and the most diehard Apple enthusiasts—I think Apple knows that too, especially with the price tag, and they’re fine with it. they’re paving the way for the future, rather than getting straight to it. such is life.